Word: rateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's hope is that the public will soon see that Congress did it no favor in trying to keep interest rates under the 4¼% ceiling, which now has turned out to be no ceiling at all but rather a prime cause of higher interest rates. Once the public is educated to that fact, said Ike. "Congress will feel the heat of truth about this matter and do something." At week's end the public was about to be educated. In Washington, the Federal Housing Administration prepared to raise the home mortgage rate from...
...best sign of the long-range growth of the economy is the birth rate of new businesses. Last week there was plenty of evidence that the rate was the highest in U.S. history. Dun & Bradstreet reported that in August establishment of new business incorporations rose to 14,329 from 12,234 a year earlier. For the first eight months of 1959, new incorporations amounted to 133,891, almost a third ahead of the comparable period...
Even more of an upsurge was shown by the birth rate of all new business, both incorporated and unincorporated. In the first six months of the year, the Commerce Department estimated that the nation gained 55,800 businesses, more than in all of last year. The increase brought the total of all U.S. firms to a record...
Personal income in August was also nipped by the strike, and fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $381.4 billion, $2.6 billion below the July level of the nation's wage and salary payments. In five manufacturing industries closely allied to steel-primary metals, mining, transportation, fabricated metals and machinery-the August annual rate of personal income was down $3 billion from the July annual rate and $4.5 billion below the June rate. Since the steel strike started last July 15, an estimated 500,000 steelworkers and 155,000 workers laid off in allied industries have lost something...
...FARE CUTS on Pacific and round-the-world flights will be proposed by Pan Am at meeting of rate-setting International Air Transport Association. Britain's government-owned airways also favor fare cuts, and sentiment is growing to establish economy fares, now confined to North Atlantic flights, on all international runs...